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“This is a very neat study confirming the recent discovery that bees and some other insects are sensitive to natural electric fields and may use them in their everyday life to forage and communicate,” ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that Southern Plains bumblebees may warrant Endangered Species Act protection. The announcement triggers a yearlong scientific assessment ...

The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Tucson, Arizona, seeks determinations on petitions filed by conservation groups to protect American bumblebees, Southern Plains bumblebees, variable ...

In 2024, BeeWalk records showed that only about nine bumblebees on average were seen per kilometer (0.6 miles) walked as opposed to some 12 in 2023 and a peak of around 14 in 2015. The report ...

Bumblebees are different from Honeybees in a number of aspects: they do not have a “hive” and don’t gather a lot of nectar.

Below is a selection of garden flowers and wildflowers that bumblebees love, and that caters for both long and short-tongued species. If you have room for even one or two of these they'll attract ...

Crops that depend on pollination are five times more valuable than those that do not. Social bees, such as honeybees and bumblebees, often live in hives or nests, above or below the ground, while most ...

This pocket bumblebee identification guide is an easy-to-use key designed to help you identify the six most common UK bumblebee species by looking at the insects' colour patterns. Want to find out ...

Specialisms: bumblebees, taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, biodiversity, ecology, species declines, conservation, My primary research interest is in bumblebee taxonomy, evolution, and biogeography.